These are software compilations made by Apple in the very early 1990's, consisting of software presentations, support, tech info, system software and utilities. Much of the informational presentations are made with HyperCard. These CD's were internal distributions and intended only for Apple Employees who were support providers.

[Top DL]: This is the Apple Technical Information Source CD-ROM version 1.0, dated April 1990.
For a list of the included US & International System Software on this ROM, view the 5th screenshot above.

Note: All disk images contained in CD 1.0 are in DiskMaker 1.3 format (included on the ROM). If you don't have the hardware to support using this software, Disk Copy 6.1 or newer can mount DiskMaker image files by dragging them over onto Disk Copy's application icon & releasing the mouse button.

[2nd DL]: Apple Information Source CD-ROM version 2.1, Oct 1991. - This ROM contains a wealth of information and software, including fully working copies of some of the popular office titles of the period, such as FileMaker Pro 1 & HyperCard 2.1, etc. It also includes Macintosh System Software releases from the earliest and up to SSW 7.0.1, but on this ROM these are only for US systems, the International version releases were not included.

If expanding this .zip file on a classic Mac system, use MacZip to ensure a complete extraction. Also, have the Virtual CD/DVD Utility installed. The expanded ".iso" is double-clickable to mount on the desktop, if the utility is also installed & MacZip was used for the extraction.

Note: All disk images contained in CD 2.1 are in DART 1.5 format (included on the ROM). If you don't have the hardware to support using this software, Disk Copy 6.1 or newer can mount DART image files by dragging them over onto Disk Copy's application icon & releasing the mouse button.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

There were other releases of the Information Source CD's and I would like to see them archived here. For example: "Apple, Technical Information Source, Version 3.0. (1992)". Anyone?

Thank you so much for making these available. I've been coming to the Mac Garden since 2002 I think, never registered until now. You are a fantastic resource, so happy people are cataloging and saving all this information.

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